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...When I was sixteen, I wanted to be an entrepreneur, but selling weed was one of the few options open to me. Today, however, young people are inspired to have higher aspirations because of hip-hop. Young people now have all these people visible who make the choice to be entrepreneurs and inspire them to do the same. It's now a cultural thing in our community." (from America Behind the Color Line...
...that Democrat is John Kerry, how would Republicans come after him? Although he has spent nearly two decades in the Senate, it's his two years as Lieutenant Governor under Michael Dukakis in the 1980s that will form the template for the attack. Sixteen years ago this winter, the earnest Governor of Massachusetts was favored to be elected President. But Bush pere prevailed, of course, by portraying Dukakis as soft on defense, out of touch on values and lenient on crime. Look for a similar though not identical pitch this time. "There's a lot to mine in the Dukakis...
...Sixteen contestants? Two teams? Cut-throat competition? On an island? Any resemblance to Survivor is intentional. The Apprentice is produced by Survivor's Mark Burnett, who met Trump in 2002 when he leased Central Park's skating rink from Trump for the show's live finale. "He told me all the right things," says Trump--among them, that the tycoon had been Burnett's idol ever since Burnett read Trump's The Art of the Deal when the then aspiring producer was selling T shirts in Venice Beach, Calif...
...investigators, a police officer stepped into the path of the white van, which hit one of the first cars in the motorcade and instantly exploded. Less than a minute later, about 40 kilos of explosives in a car detonated just meters away from the presidential limo, shattering the windshield. Sixteen people were killed, including the bombers, police officers, army security personnel and bystanders; the President was unhurt. Just 11 days earlier, Musharraf eluded a similar attack when a bridge near his residence blew up seconds after his car crossed...
...process begins every year in the spring, when the organization’s business staff is chosen. Sixteen members work all year round selling ads, preparing for the annual Man and Woman of the Year Event, and coordinating the show’s tour to New York and Bermuda—all before one word of the script has been put on paper...